It looked like Ward got off way too lightly. A few punches, some nails in his foot, and a broken larynx. May should've at least put the traitor in full traction for killing Victoria Hand, releasing plenty of dangerous supervillains & artifacts, deepsixing FitzSimmons, threating to rape Skye, & trying to cut her up with a power saw.

I was kinda hoping to see Skue do some damage by accidentally triggering whatever her "power" may be and the WTF reaction it might get. that coulda been a nice lead to her figuring out just what she can do and how to control it. also, the people that seem to think highly of Skye no matter what almost smacks a little of (unintentional?) pheremone manipulation.

Okay, what was that at the end? They just took Chet away in a body bag and suddenly he's alive again, turning himself into Robocop, and then Coulson shoots him. It was a funny gag, but it made no sense.

Oh, and Ward will make some kind of sacrifice early next season, from his jail cell, to save Fitz or Simmons. Whichever one is the guy.

Until someone on the series during the course of an episode says something akin to "That blue guy is a Kree", it's not a Kree. It's not anything until they say what it is. Just because an actress on the show said she thinks it might maybe be a Kree (she never "confirmed" anything) doesn't mean it's a Kree. Remember when Karl Urban said Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Gary Mitchell in ST:ID?

What is UP with all of the nerd hard-ons for "Life Model Decoys"? Tony Stark mentions it once, briefly, as a joke in THE AVENGERS suddenly it becomes the number one fanboy desire. Like You guys want them so badly it's almost disturbing.

But kinda cute in an "awww, they're like overgrown twelve year-old kids!" sort of way.

I was underwhelmed...which doesn't surprise me as that's pretty much been status quo for this series. It did certainly improve as the season went on. It went from honest-to-God awful to "eh. That wasn't so bad" to "decent" by the last three episodes. It's just really...bland. There's no visual personality to it. Lighting, music, direction, etc. are all so very...plain. Your average CSI episode is more lush, visually.

I get that people dig the series. Some dig it A LOT. That's cool. But there are more who WANT to so badly that the slightest little meaningless reference...Maria Hill saying "Man-Thing", for instance...gets giddy claps from the peanut gallery as if she was handing out coupons for X-Box games.

I'll certainly tune in to season 2 but they have to step it up. At least for me to become invested. It's not "must see" television. It's "oh, that's right, there was a new episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. last night" television. I get more fired up about ARROW or BLACK LIST, to be honest.

Pretty much the only reason I have to keep watching into Season Two is the promise of more Patton Oswalt on a regular basis. That interests me far more than Skye's birthright or Ward's potential return or what will happen to Fitz.

Well that was a really low-intensity finale.Why didn't May bring the Berserker staff to knock dumb Ward's junk off with?Nick Fury is Santa Claus?Garrett & Raina ate all the scenery.Each secret SHIELD base includes a Koenig LMD.Coulson & Nick mocking Garrett was was meta-cute, but it also completely undermined the drama of the climax.There was more vague foreshadowy talk that 's not interesting enough to speculate about. Dropping a few truthbombs would've been nice. Something like "Skye's father is Maximus the Mad of the Inhuman royal family!" There was no hook to get me excited for next year.

So the season finale didn't confirm my suspicion that Victoria Hand used a Life Model Decoy to trick Ward into revealing himself, but it did confirm my suspicion that the poker game with Fitz and Ward foreshadowed Fitz beating Ward by losing... in this case he beat Ward's attempt to kill Gemma by nearly losing his own life.

I'm thinking next season Fitz will spend a few episodes comatose until he wakes up with severe brain damage that reduces him to average intelligence. How frustrating would it be for him to no longer be a super genius?

A new Koenig? YAY!

If the whole "Skye is Kree" thing gets dragged out beyond season 2 I'm gonna get so sick and tired of it. At this point they'd really be better to just come right out and say it.

So happy to see Garrett killed off just as we're meant to think he's gonna be an even bigger bad for season 2.

The language Garrett, Coulson, and whoever wrote that chalkboard thing halfway through the season were writing...is KREE. In the chalkboard scene, there was also some Skrull mixed in, but what you're seeing is Kree.

The idea of humanity evolving the way Raina/Reina talks about, the hidden thing inside, refers most likely to Inhumans and the Inhumanity/Terragen storyline. So consider that fair warning, we're gonna have Black Bolt eventually.

The Inhumans storyline could easily mean that Skye might well end up as Ms. Marvel and Reina would end up as Moonstone. Factor in the Kree-derived blue supergoop and that points even more towards Skye eventually being Ms. Marvel.

Now, look at this from the big picture. We already know we're headed towards Infinity Gauntlet/War/Crusade via Guardians of the Galaxy and everything else we've seen. If there are Kree and Skrulls, that means we're going to get the Kree/Skrull War because that's what they DO. In GOTG we've already seen the Nova Corps, so that rounds out a lot of space adventures. With possible Inhumanity on the horizon, instead of labeling Supers and mutants, the government would be trying to label Inhumans, which would lead to Civil War (making perfect sense as Chris Evans is only signed for two more films after Age of Ultron but Sebastian Stan is signed for seven more). Alongside Civil War, we have a bit of a gathering.

@OneMinuteGalactica not to be harsh but did you watch the episode or the season for that matter, "Chet" was the original deathlok, he was extremly empowered by the alien dna and centepide serum, when he came back to life he installed the production deathlok gear on him to become unstoppable. Coulson shoots him with the replica of the alien weapon that they found earlier in the season that hydra build from the specs they got off the bus.

@spacemonkeycomics To be honest the show never sold itself as more than a quick easy escape into lighthearted adventure, with some dark moments. I like arrow, but thats my problem with it, The stakes got sooooo high by season two, that I wonder how new folks like Merlin and deadshot are even gonna be important. By season 3 he should defeat guys like that off camera on his way to saving the world. I feel Arrow is gonna burn itself out because it's not pacing the ramp up. Meanwhile MAOS (a completely different show, with different undertones) is gonna grow slowly and pay off in the long run. Look at the series "Angel" and compare its 1st season to it's last. We know Graviton will be coming, and god knows who else.

@spacemonkeycomics LMDs are a big part of SHIELD's advanced spy tech from the comics so people expect the SHIELD TV show to actually develop the comic elements that the movies didn't have time for, especially when they can be fodder for arcs about ethics & paranoia.

@EvilMonkeyPope Yeah. I realized with this episode that the biggest problem with this show is that there's been no sense of urgency to most of the episodes. Even this grand finale is laid-back, with Coulson and Fury just standing there quipping as the murderous, crazy super-strong killer is closing in on them.

@GreggoryBasore In terms of the Kree issue -- WE know about the Kree, remember, but the casual MCU fan hasn't met them yet. After GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY in August introduces the race and all of its concepts, next season will have the freedom to delve into that 'vocabulary.'

@laurengoodnight Skye isn't going to end up as Ms./Captain Marvel or Moonstone -- she and Raina, as nascent Inhumans will eventually likely end up undergoing Terrigenesis (or at least Raina definitely will, to show the audience the effect of it -- Skye may choose to remain 'human,'especially depending on how monstrous her parents, especially the Bloody Man that is her father, truly are both physically and character-wise as Evolved Inhumans). That said, the full reveal of the Kree on the show hasn't come yet, since the audience of the MCU are going to "meet" them first this summer in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.

As for Captain Marvel herself, the folks at Marvel Studios have talked up the character over recent months. I firmly believe that Carol Danvers *will* be introduced into the MCU and get a movie, but after the Kree have been introduced and have given impetus to be coming to Earth. Likewise, with contracts running low on some of the Phase 1 characters, it makes sense to wait a bit to introduce new headliners like Danvers or Strange merely to prolong starting new actors' contracts (and the ticking clocks on them).

Skye as Ms. Marvel (she's called Captain Marvel now, by the way: Get with the times!) is a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE HORRIBLE BAD idea. They learned their lesson and have shortened her role on the show. Chloe Bennett is NOT a decent enough actress to play any sort of analog to Carol Danvers, not to mention being any kind of actual superhero. She smirks through everything.

Skye is still annoying, stupid, and snarky, and the only reason the show has been awesome lately is because they kept her screen time to a minimum.

@scockery After his slow losing-his-mind of late, it's going to be interesting to see how Fitz turns out after brain damage.

Having quite enjoyed this episode, my one real complaint is that they didn't check in on Fitz at the end -- even just a panning image of him in a hospital bed -- besides Simmons' "Well, he's alive..." comment. As an original regular whose future status is now really unknown and who made a hell of a sacrifice play, I think the character deserved that much.

@bdcohen87 Coulson loves big guns, yes he does. His first directive as Director should be "I get to carry around the biggest piece of armament I can find, and no one gets to make snide remarks about my manhood!"

@poisonshadow They made too big a deal of it not to pay it off at some point. Just my two cents but it seems like one of those things that was just a small detail that would go unnoticed and then pay off later on in the series as something more substantial.

@Gallen_Dugall I want one for every secret base, I hope this also means he will be at least a semi regular in a few months when things pick back up again we don't need him every day but you know just every now and then especially since they might be doing more small scale operations since they have two planes and 4 agents plus a tech or two in the form of Simmons and a maybe Fitz. So somebody might be around the base on a regular basis.

@Zer0ShiFTDroid @OneMinuteGalactica Yeah, I get that. You're harsh and all that.

But when did he rise out of the body bag? When did he make his way back to the super soldier chair? They didn't show a thing. Maybe they filmed some of it and left it out because of editing purposes. The point I'm trying to get across is: It was a terrible way to get from Point A to Point B. Something was missing. It was choppy. It was weird. It was a good joke, though.

As for how Garret got up...... well he healed. If I get anything from the alien blood thing that was injected into Garret is it heals folks really well, and his was boosted when mixed with the centipede stuff.

@nix.nightbird@laurengoodnight She's Captain now, but she was Ms. for a damned long time. and the current Ms. is an Inhuman/Terragen mist hybrid thingie, so all signs point to Inhumanity and Kree if not specifically to Ms. Marvel. And no, I don't love Skye, but damn, I'd kill for more of Reina.

@sba.zerg539@poisonshadow It's what I figured, but I was just curious if there was any mute S.H.I.E.L.D. traitor from the comics that I wasn't aware of. I'm not well versed in the realm of S.H.I.E.L.D. stories.

@Gallen_Dugall I think if you were to overuse Oswalt he might start to work against himself and that is more of the kind of character he was tasked with not Patton. I don't think we need any one of the characters every episode, some of the best episodes of the past season especially among the earlier ones had a tighter focus of characters.